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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'You can&apos;t get a driver license without a telephone!?',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2018/07/10.jpg" alt="A house burned out ..." class="framed-centred-image" width="649" height="480"/>
<section id="DMV">
	<h2>The $a[DMV]</h2>
	<p>
		I finally stopped at the $a[DMV] to schedule a drive test.
		They refused to let me scheduled one!
		They insisted I call some telephone number to schedule it, and when I explained that I don&apos;t have telephone service, they continued insisting that they couldn&apos;t schedule it in-person.
		I asked them, &quot;So I can&apos;t get a driver license because I don&apos;t have a telephone?&quot;.
		And the answer was yes.
		I mean, they kept trying to weasel their way out of that answer, but in the end, the answer was yes.
		What a load of garbage.
	</p>
	<p>
		The $a[DMV] doesn&apos;t have a bike rack.
		I&apos;ve always thought that was a thumb on the nose to non-drivers, including drivers-to-be.
		You can&apos;t drive there to get your permit, you know?
		You&apos;ve got to come by some non-vehicle method!
		Anyway, I usually lock my bike up at the second-hand store nearby, but this time, I locked it to a handicapped parking sign.
		Big mistake.
		Normally, it&apos;d&apos;ve been fine.
		I&apos;d locked it to the side facing the side walk, so a vehicle could still be parked in the space.
		I wasn&apos;t in the way.
		But the side walk was.
		The pole was barely down from the curb, at a distance such that the bike couldn&apos;t be fully on the side walk, but also couldn&apos;t be fully off of it.
		I planned to be careful when unlocking the bike, but in frustration, I forgot and didn&apos;t hold the bike up.
		It fell, and I&apos;m pretty sure I damaged the inner tube, because a bit down the street, I found I was riding on a flat.
		Joy.
	</p>
	<p>
		I stopped at a bike shop on that street; they&apos;ve got an air pump.
		I figured I&apos;d buy a couple inner tubes to keep as backups (I&apos;d be using my last spare at home once I got back), then refill the tire and see how much closer to home I could get before I had to start walking again.
		There&apos;s no pressure gage at that shop&apos;s pump and I was afraid of under-filling it.
		The more I under-filled it, the shorter a distance I could get.
		The pump&apos;s a lot faster than mine at home though, and I ended up <strong>*over*</strong>-filling the tube.
		It exploded with a deafening pop, and the tire went limper than I&apos;ve ever seen one.
		Even a flat that&apos;s been sitting for days doesn&apos;t get that limp.
		I lost sensitivity in my right ear for a bit from the load sound, which felt really weird.
	</p>
	<p>
		I&apos;d planned to grab lunch while I was out, but on foot, I couldn&apos;t risk losing too much time, and when I got home, I found I only had enough time for the repair and to get ready for work.
		The new vegan food truck I&apos;d been told about yesterday will have to wait until tomorrow.
	</p>
	<p>
		Once I took the tire off, I found the inner tube full of whitish goo.
		It was probably anti-flat goo, which makes me wonder how the air level had gotten that low to begin with.
		The point is though, if I&apos;d just tried under-filling to avoid over-filling, the tire would&apos;ve probably held out all the way, I would&apos;ve gotten lunch, and I might not have had to have changed the tire at all.
		The goo might&apos;ve just filled the hole and hardened.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I find it funny that people find the thought of ghosts scary.
			I guess most people believe in an afterlife though, while I don&apos;t.
			If I were to come in contact with a ghost, I&apos;d be excited.
			It&apos;d mean that what I&apos;d thought was the end isn&apos;t actually the end.
			I could go on &quot;living&quot;, at least in some form.
			That, to me, would be awesome.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
END
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